Although the story is fictional, the town of Jacksonville, Oregon is not. In this movie it's very remote, with few residents and it hardly qualifies as a town at all. And its real-life history is having been founded as a gold mining town, as in this movie.
"The Hedda Hopper Show - This Is Hollywood" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on October 19, 1946 with Susan Hayward reprising her film role.
Dana Andrews would work with director Jacques Tourneur a decade later in Curse of the Demon (1957) and The Fearmakers (1958).
Dana Andrews would later co-star with Susan Hayward in My Foolish Heart (1949), and with Hoagy Carmichael in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Night Song (1947).
Lloyd Bridges would work with director Jacques Tourneur in another Western a decade later, Wichita (1955).